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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Cannot copy/paste from Team content to Users' My content

I didn't find a way to copy a report from Team content to a User My content ... in v10 I just had to click checkbox in front of the report, hit copy button, then go in the security, browse to find the user My folder, go in and Paste. Now the only ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Title property for hyperlink

When using the hyperlink control with Visual Studio there is no property for the html title attribute. Title is enables the html mouseover option. In the current version when have to use an html control or a custom control for such basic functiona...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filter search results on other types than reports/dashboards/data/folders like shortcuts, report views, jobs like in C10

Filter search results on other types than reports/dashboards/data/folders like shortcuts, report views, jobs like in C10
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Error messages in Cognos BI are unclear.

When users are sharing a report url with a user who doesn't have the rights to see the report we get the following message: 'CCL-PLG-0001 Failed to load the pluggable shared library', which is really unclear. A better message would be ' The user d...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extensions: Add support for shortcuts in a folder

When you add a folder to the left navigation menu via an extension and the "extension folder" contains shortcuts to other folders, the shortcuts will not work (nothing happens when the user clicks the folder shortcut). The folder shortcut only wor...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extending properties box to see MUN/Expression

When you're either in the page explorer or the query explorer it is always useful to see the full MUN (for dimensional) or Expression (for relational). With the pop in / pop out properties box you can't extend the size of this box to see the full ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Issue - Data formatting on Conditional blocks

1. Data formatting defined for the cell doesn't work inside conditional blocks.2. Search Enhancement - Cannot search for report within subfolder. Always, search option shows result from the root folder in cognos connection3. Copy and Paste Enhance...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to upload images

Customer would like to allow users to upload their own images
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

block garbage unprintable characters from being used in report properties

We have had a challenging problem where users have been pasting in report names, descriptions and other report or object properties in Cognos Analytics. These cause issues in delivery of report output.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Setup Automatic Alerts when Background Report Execution is Queued Up

when multiple reports are running at the same time as background process, lets say one of the bad report caused most of the reports into pending state. we would like to have a feature that can alert us indicating multiple reports are in pending st...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration